What does the torah say about lgbtq
Israel Chief Rabbi Amar condemned for 'gay death penalty' comment
While the Torah ordains the death penalty in theory for several types of "offences", strict conditions historically made it almost impossible to apply, according to Orthodox Jewish tradition.
In response to Rabbi Amar's latest remarks, several members of parliament and leaders of the womxn loving womxn, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, said he should be sacked.
"A universal figure that puts Israeli citizens' animation at risk using incitement and exclusion should be immediately fired," three MPs said in a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
An LGBT activist, Shirley Kleinman, made a complaint to police, accusing Rabbi Amar of incitement to murder.
"Let's try and ensure that this man will not remain in his key public position," Ms Kleinman said on her Facebook page.
"This is not an anti-religious issue... I do include an interest to protect my rights and your rights to live, and [to live with] dignity."
The sources of Judaism’s traditional position on homosexuality and lgbtq+ issues are adequately known. Two verses in Leviticus (Leviticus 18:23 and Leviticus 20:13) express unequivocal condemnation of male homosexual sex (although it is not clear whether what is referred to is intercourse or all sexual acts between men). According to Leviticus 20:13: “If a male lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have involved an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.”
READ: Putting The Prohibition Against Homosexuality in Context
As evident by its language, the biblical prohibition does not extend to female homosexual acts, though later commentators disapproved of lesbianism. One rabbinic cause associates female homosexuality with the activities of the Egyptians and Canaanites, from which the Jews are supposed to abstain. Other authorities describe lesbianism as lewd or promiscuous, but do not consider it a capital offense. The Leviticus verses also imply that it is the act of homosexual sex, not the queer person, that is abhorred.
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Homosexuality in Jewish Law
Among the sexual perversions proscribed as criminal offenses in the moral code of the Torah are homosexual relations between males (Lev. 18:22). Both offending parties are threatened with capital punishment (Lev. 20:13), though minors under 13 years of age are exempt from this as from any other penalty (Sanh. 54a). Talmudic law extends the prohibition, but not the penalty, which is limited to flagellation, also to lesbianism, i.e., homosexual intimacies between women, based on the general warning not to indulge in the abhorrent practices of the Egyptians and the Canaanites (Sifra 9:8). While the laws on both offenses are codified by Maimonides (Yad, Issurei Bi’ah, 1:14; and 21:8), the prohibition of homosexuality proper is omitted from R. Joseph Caro’sShulhan Arukh. This omission reflects the perceived absence of homosexuality among Jews rather than any difference of views on the criminality of these acts.
The Bible refers to actual incidents involving homosexuality only in describing the abominations of the sinful municipality of Sodom, where the entire population demanded of Lot the surrender of his visitors (Gen. 19:5), i.e., have carnal awareness of th
Stances of Faiths on LGBTQ+ Issues: Orthodox Judaism
There is no core governing body but despite the different forms it has taken they all share some common principles of faith and a deep loyalty to Halacha or Jewish law. Halacha is a code of behavior that covers a vast range of ethical rules, social mores, ritual practices and spiritual disciplines. A quarter of the medieval code, the Shulchan Aruch, which to this day guides Orthodox Jews, focuses on sexual exercise and marriage. Judaism celebrates creation as an integral good. Consequently, Jewish statute does not disparage sex. However, Orthodox tradition only supports heterosexual relations and only within the context of heterosexual marriage.
Orthodox tradition is religiously organized and socially structured by biblical and rabbinic teachings on fixed gender roles, creating separate religious duties and always separate spaces for men and women during worship. Orthodox Judaism believes that the Torah is of divine origin and represents the word of G-d. Jewish sacred texts, commonly understood in the Christian world as the Old Testament, include the Five Books of Moses, (referred to as the Torah), the Prophets (Nevi'im)
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I wanted to speak about the Torah, and what it says about being gay, and homosexual relationships. I am culturally Jewish, and an atheist. I think that studying the Torah is fascinating for two reasons: First, it is a culturally significant work of ancient literature. Second, it contains law codes that many people structure their lives around. I don’t contemplate it reveals anything about any higher power, but I think it’s worth studying regardless.
The Torah is often interpreted to disallow gay relationships and sex. In my opinion, that is not an precise interpretation of the chat, and I’d like to discuss this matter of interpretation. I am vanishing to the side questions of morality, ethics, nice law codes, etc. I want to focus purely on the question, “What does the Torah actually say?”
I want to center in particular on two passages in the Torah that are often interpreted as banning gay relationships and/or sex, Leviticus 18:22 and Leviticus 20:13. I will be using the translation found in “The Torah: A Modern Commentary, Revised Edition”, edited by Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut, linked above.
I believe that with a full reading, in context, and with